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http://www.businessinsider.com/nigella-lawson-barred-from-us-2014-4TV Cook Nigella Lawson Was Barred From The US After Confessing To Using Cocainehttp://www.businessinsider.com/nigella-lawson-barred-from-us-2014-4
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 09:35:00 -0400Press Association
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/533d5fac6bb3f7ff6c0c7570-1200-924/nigella-lawson-13.jpg" border="0" alt="Nigella Lawson" /></p><p>Nigella Lawson has been stopped from flying to the US four months after she confessed to taking cocaine.</p>
<p>The TV cook, 54, was barred from boarding a flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles at the weekend.</p>
<p>At the of trial two personal assistants employed by Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi, the self-styled "domestic goddess" admitted taking the class-A drug.</p>
<p>Lawson, a mother of two, told jurors that she took cocaine with her late husband, John Diamond, when he found out he had terminal cancer and in 2010 when she claimed she was being "subjected to intimate terrorism" by Saatchi.</p>
<p>A witness told the Daily Mail that Lawson attempted to board a British Airways flight from London on Sunday morning but was turned away.</p>
<p>"She didn't seem to say much but she did not look happy," the onlooker said. "She could not get on the flight so she had to turn around and leave."</p>
<p>Police reviewed the allegations of drug use made during the trial but Scotland Yard said no further action would be taken.</p>
<p>While Lawson has not been convicted for any drug offence, it appears that US officials have still decided to deny her entrance to the country.</p>
<p>The US department of homeland security told the Mail that foreigners who had admitted drug taking were deemed "inadmissible".</p>
<p>However, Lawson has visited America since the court appearance. She appeared on the US TV show Good Morning America to promote her show, The Taste, but also spoke at length about the trial of Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, who were acquitted.</p>
<p>The Grillos had been accused of fraudulently using company credit cards, spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on designer goods for themselves while working as personal assistants to the celebrity couple. But the Italian sisters claimed every purchase had been approved by their then bosses and they were found not guilty after jurors deliberated for nine hours.</p>
<p>Lawson told Good Morning America that having details of her acrimonious split from the millionaire art dealer Saatchi discussed in court under the glare of the world's media had been "mortifying".</p>
<p>Lawyer Susan McFadden, who specialises in US immigration law, said Lawson was unlucky because her fame had drawn attention to the comments in court about drugs.</p>
<p>She explained: "In order to travel to the States without a visa on the visa waiver programme one has to obtain Esta [electronic system for travel authorisation] authorisation.</p>
<p>"As part of that one has to answer questions about whether one has been arrested or convicted for an offence involving moral turpitude or in relation to a controlled substance. Someone in Ms Lawson's circumstances could tick no.</p>
<p>"But the problem comes when one also has to answer a question as to whether you are a drug abuser or addict.</p>
<p>"The question of who is a drug user is a difficult one and is supposed to be directed by regulations set out by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.</p>
<p>"Typically any person who has used drugs within the last year can be considered a drug abuser or addict.</p>
<p>"It could be because she is unlucky enough to be famous and her admission of drug use made the newspapers. It could be that someone said: 'Hey, if she has used illegal drugs in the past year she could be classed as a drug abuser'."</p>
<p>McFadden explained that if this was the case, there were a series of steps which must be taken before Lawson would be allowed back into the States.</p>
<p>She would first be advised to visit a doctor who holds a contract with the US embassy in London who would carry out an assessment to see whether or not she could be classed under these terms.</p>
<p>If the doctor says she should be free to travel she could obtain a visa in a number of weeks, McFadden said. Lawson said in court that she last used cocaine in 2010.</p>
<p>She told the court: "I have never been a drug addict. I've never been a habitual user. There are two times in my life when I have used cocaine."</p>
<p>A spokeswoman for the US embassy said: "There are several ways of legally travelling into the United States and Ms Lawson has been invited to come to the embassy and apply for a visa for travel to the US. We understand she has professional requirements for US travel and these matters are generally handled routinely and expeditiously, so stand by."</p>
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Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:09:00 -0500Adam Taylor
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/52a0e8a9eab8ead94c96af78-800-/nigella-lawson-11.jpg" border="0" alt="Nigella Lawson" width="800" /></p><p>There was one story that <a href="https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/408376938701398016/photo/1">dominated the British papers today</a>. It trended <a href="http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/ThreeTrending/top-10-nigella-tweets-29812837.html">on social media</a>, and slogans related to the story are now <a href="http://www.london24.com/news/team_nigella_graffiti_in_stoke_newington_removed_by_council_1_3081250">appearing in graffiti</a> on walls and on <a href="http://www.sportsbanger.com/product/team-nigella">T-shirts</a>. It's a winding tale of love, cocaine, and domestic violence. In short, everyone in the U.K. has become captivated by the bitter feud between divorcees Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi.</p>
<p>It's been a nasty fall from grace for the pair. After they married ten years ago, Lawson and Saatchi were once one of the golden couples of London society. She was a popular celebrity journalist and chef, appearing frequently both in print and on television (Lawson was in the process of trying to break into the U.S. market, where she appeared on "Iron Chef America" and "The Taste," following the earlier success of her "<a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/nigella-bites/index.html" target="_blank">Nigella Bites</a>" program airing on The Food Network). He was a legend in the advertising world, having made a fortune founding the huge agency Saatchi and Saatchi, and later became one of the most important collectors in the world of modern art.</p>
<p>That all changed this past June, when <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/celebrity-chef-nigella-lawson-was-reportedly-assaulted-by-her-husband-at-a-restuarant-2013-6">Lawson and Saatchi dined at Scott&rsquo;s in Mayfair</a>, central London, and the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigella-lawson-photos-see-shocking-1955564">Sunday People published photographs</a> that appeared to show Saatchi grabbing his crying wife by the throat. Police <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/18/saatchi-lawson-police-caution-assault">later investigated the incident and cautioned Saatchi</a>, who told one London newspaper that the <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/exclusive-charles-saatchi-says-pictures-showing-him-holding--wife-nigella-lawson-by-the-throat-were-playful-tiff-8661824.html">photo just showed a</a> "playful tiff." A few weeks later, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357634/Charles-Saatchi-breaks-divorce-news-Nigella-Lawson-exclusive-statement-Mail-Sunday.html">Saatchi divorced his wife</a>.</p>
<p>The story would have probably been forgotten if it hadn't been for the court case of Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, two sisters from Italy who had worked as assistants for Lawson and Saatchi. The Grillo sisters are accused of using credit cards loaned to them by the couple to spend <span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">&pound;</span>685,000 (more than $1 million) on luxury clothes, accessories and rooms at high-end hotels for themselves, charges which they deny.</p>
<p>During the trial, lawyers for the sisters alleged that Lawson had allowed their incredible spending to buy their silence about her cocaine, marijuana, and prescription drug habit. Emails from Saatchi, in which he accused Lawson of being "so off her head" on drugs she allowed them to "spend whatever they liked," were read in court. Suddenly the pictures published by the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigella-lawson-photos-see-shocking-1955564">Sunday People began</a> to take on a different light: Saatchi reportedly told friends he was taking cocaine out of his wife's nose, though in court <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/charles-saatchi-heartbroken-lost-nigella-lawson-article-1.1532708">he said he had never seen any evidence that she was a drug addict</a>.</p>
<p>If this was Saatchi's big PR move to get back at Lawson (as some <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/charles-saatchi-nigella-breakup">have speculated</a>), it now appears to have backfired. Lawson has been in court for the past few days, and she has openly admitted to using cocaine a handful of times, but denied that she was addicted. "If I was taking cocaine and cannabis to the extent you say, I wouldn't be standing here," she <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nigella-lawson-wont-be-bullied-by-lies-2013-12">told prosecutors today</a>, also adding "If you want to put me on trial, put me on trial."</p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52a0e3506bb3f771606381a0-695-521/nigella-lawson-daily-mail.jpg" border="0" alt="Nigella Lawson Daily Mail" width="400" />Her performance in court has found much of the British public on her side. "Team Nigella" is the word trending on social media, being spray-painted on walls, and appearing on T-shirts. and the Daily Mail ran an elegant photograph of her on their front page with the touching headline "I didn't have a drug problem. I had a life problem &ndash; The day Nigella unburdened her soul in court" (as the Guardian notes, the story and its presentation <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2013/dec/05/nigella-lawson-trial-media-appearance-charles-saatchi?CMP=twt_gu">has a whiff of Princess Diana about it</a>). Team Charles, meanwhile, is nowhere to be seen.</p>
<p>How could Saatchi have lost the public sympathy so quickly? Well, first, consider the two people here. Saatchi has played an extraordinary role in British society in the past few years, and some aspects of it have been controversial &mdash; creating the advertisement that arguably got Margaret Thatcher elected, or helping to send art prices into the stratosphere, for example. He's notoriously cantankerous, and extremely rich. Lawson, on the other hand, has always been remarkably popular in the U.K. &mdash; her good looks, down-to-earth cooking style, and flirty manner have made her popular with both men and women.</p>
<p>There's may also be another factor that says much about modern Britain: The metropolitan elites who made up much of Lawson's fanbase perhaps don't care or aren't surprised that a prominent media personality would take cocaine. As James Ball, special projects editor of the Guardian, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=posh&amp;src=typd&amp;f=follows">sardonically tweeted yesterday</a>: "BREAKING: posh person in TV industry has used cocaine. I'm sure a nation is in shock." Cocaine usage may not be a big deal for many of these fans, but accusations of bullying or violence of a wife by her millionaire spouse are. Whether American audiences will be so <a href="http://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/04/will-allegations-of-drug-abuse-hurt-nigella-lawsons-career/">relaxed about Lawson's drug use remains to be seen</a>, however.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nigella-lawson-and-charles-saatchi-fued-captivates-uk-2013-12#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/nigella-lawson-wont-be-bullied-by-lies-2013-12Celebrity Chef Refuses To Be 'Bullied By Lies' About Drug Use In A Captivating Trialhttp://www.businessinsider.com/nigella-lawson-wont-be-bullied-by-lies-2013-12
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:04:56 -0500Jill Lawless
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<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">LONDON (AP) &mdash; Television cook and author Nigella Lawson on Thursday accused lawyers for two former assistants of treating her like a suspect rather than a witness, as she again denied allegations of heavy drug use.</span></p>
<p>"If you want to put me on trial, put me on trial," Lawson said as she testified for a second day at the fraud trial of her two ex-employees. "I don't feel it is right to have me here as a witness for the Crown and treat me like this."</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Lawson acknowledged taking cocaine a handful of times but denied being a regular drug user. She was pressed on the subject again Thursday under cross-examination by a defense lawyer, who asked whether she had kept cocaine in a hollowed-out book containing jewelry including her late first husband's wedding ring.</p>
<p>Lawson denied it.</p>
<p>"If I was taking cocaine and cannabis to the extent you say, I wouldn't be standing here," she said.</p>
<p>"If you think I'm going to sabotage my health and leave my children as orphans, you are very wrong," said Lawson, who has a son and a daughter from her marriage to John Diamond, who died of cancer in 2001.</p>
<p>"I promise you ... regular cocaine users do not look like this," added the cook, known for her voluptuous figure. "They are scrawny and look unhealthy."</p>
<p>Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, sisters from Italy, are charged with using credit cards loaned to them by Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi to spend 685,000 pounds (more than $1 million) on luxury clothes, accessories and rooms at high-end hotels. They deny the fraud charges.</p>
<p>The case has been overshadowed by revelations about the troubled relationship between Lawson and Saatchi, a wealthy art collector. The couple divorced in July after Saatchi was photographed grabbing Lawson's throat outside a London restaurant.</p>
<p>Lawyers for the Grillos allege that Lawson sanctioned their high spending in exchange for their silence about her drug use. They have quoted an email in which Saatchi accused Lawson of being "so off her head" on drugs she allowed them to "spend whatever they liked."</p>
<p>Lawson said that claim was "ridiculous." She denied misleading police by not mentioning earlier that she had occasionally taken drugs.</p>
<p>She said she was not proud of her past drug use but came clean to avoid being "bullied by lies" from Saatchi.</p>
<p>Lawson said "I would rather be honest and ashamed" than let false allegations stand.</p>
<p>"I'm not proud of the fact I have taken drugs but that does not make me a drug addict or a habitual drug user," she said.</p>
<p>The trial has generated huge media interest. Lawson, 53, entered the court on Thursday walking past dozens of photographers and television cameras.</p>
<p>Cross-examined by Francesca Grillo's lawyer, Karina Arden, Lawson denied using her court appearance to explain herself to the world's press or to hit back at her ex.</p>
<p>"I prefer to keep my private life private," she said. "I felt it was my duty to come."</p>
<p>Lawson spent two days in the witness box at London's Isleworth Crown Court, at times sparring with defense lawyers who quizzed her on details of her domestic life with Saatchi. Judge Robin Johnson several times asked attorneys to halt lines of questioning.</p>
<p>At other times, the evidence was leavened by flashes of wit.</p>
<p>At one point Arden told Lawson that she shared her "penchant for things Italian," and said she did not mean that as a criticism.</p>
<p>"I don't see how that could ever be interpreted by anyone as a criticism," Lawson replied.</p>
<p>Jill Lawless can be reached at <a href="http://Twitter.com/JillLawless">http://Twitter.com/JillLawless</a></p>
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Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:21:00 -0400Aly Weisman
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/526ec0e5eab8ea27788b456b-480-/nigella-lawson-8.jpg" border="0" alt="Nigella Lawson" width="480" /></p><p>First Gwyneth Paltrow <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/gwyneth-paltrow-boycotting-vanity-fair-2013-9" target="_blank">emailed her celebrity friends</a> urging them not to participate in an unauthorized profile of the actress in an upcoming Vanity Fair issue, which will reportedly <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/gwyneth-paltrow-is-trying-to-stop-her-vanity-fair-profile-because-it-alleges-she-had-an-affair-with-jeffrey-soffer-2013-10" target="_blank">claim she had an affair</a> with Miami billionaire, Jeffrey Soffer.</p>
<p>The magazine also recently <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/brad-pitt-tries-to-fix-world-war-z-2013-5" target="_blank">blasted Brad Pitt</a>'s "World War Z" film and Tom Cruise's involvement with Scientology.</p>
<p>Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter's latest victim is English TV chef Nigella Lawson, who was just granted a quickie&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigella-lawson-divorce-charles-saatchis-2106888" target="_blank">divorce</a>&nbsp;from her <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/charles%20saatchi" target="_blank">multi-millionaire art collector</a> husband of ten years, Charles Saatchi, after he <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigella-lawson-attacked-fan-fury-1957486" target="_blank">choked her in public</a> earlier this year.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478357/EXCLUSIVE-Nigella-Lawson-refuses-operate-Vanity-Fair-probe-real-reason-split-Charles-Saatchi.html" target="_blank">MailOnline is reporting</a> that Vanity Fair writer Kevin Goldman has been flown to London to interview associates and friends of both Nigella, 53, and her ex-husband Saatchi, 70.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/526ec628eab8ea09208b4567-987-740/graydon-carter-2.png" border="0" alt="Graydon Carter" width="480" />"No stone has been unturned, Vanity Fair wanted to get to the bottom of such an abrupt breakup and why the end of the marriage was agreed so quickly," reports MailOnline. "</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Kevin has spoken to a lot of associates of both Nigella and Charles."</span></p>
<p>Taking a page out of Paltrow's book, Lawson is reportedly refusing to participate in the article and is requesting her inner circle do the same.</p>
<p>But we all know that Graydon Carter doesn't respond well to being iced out, as the magazine's EIC said that Paltrow's public refusal <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/graydon-carter-confirms-vanity-fairs-epic-takedown-of-gwyneth-paltrow-2013-10" target="_blank">"</a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/graydon-carter-confirms-vanity-fairs-epic-takedown-of-gwyneth-paltrow-2013-10" target="_blank">sort of forced my hand"</a>&nbsp;and thus, he <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/graydon-carter-confirms-vanity-fairs-epic-takedown-of-gwyneth-paltrow-2013-10" target="_blank">told the London Times</a>,&nbsp;<span>&ldquo;it&rsquo;ll run.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span><span>"The report will be published as it has been revealed noted art dealer Saatchi is threatening to sue his ex-wife for $800,000 in an explosive court case where he wants to reveal &lsquo;the truth&rsquo; about their break-up," explains MailOnline.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>If Carter has his way, "the truth" will be revealed in his magazine.</span></span></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/gwyneth-paltrow-is-trying-to-stop-her-vanity-fair-profile-because-it-alleges-she-had-an-affair-with-jeffrey-soffer-2013-10#ixzz2j35X2kHw" >Gwyneth Paltrow Is Reportedly Trying To Stop Her Vanity Fair Profile Because It Alleges She Had An Affair With Billionaire Jeffrey Soffer </a></strong></p>
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Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:16:00 -0400Laura Stampler
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/51fa682a6bb3f78932000007-480-/screen%20shot%202013-08-01%20at%209.52.22%20am.png" border="0" alt="Screen shot 2013 08 01 at 9.52.22 AM" width="480" /></p><p>Charles Saatchi is known for co-founding ad agency Saatchi &amp; Saatchi, collecting contemporary art, and more recently, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/charles-saatchi-warned-not-to-choke-wife-nigella-lawson-again-2013-6">choking his now ex-wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, in a London restaurant.</a></p>
<p>But now the adman/art collector has been turned into a work of art, the title of which is taken from the exact words Saatchi used to describe the incident:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342922/Nigella-Lawson-Charles-Saatchi-says-row-playful-tiff-held-throat-emphasise-point.html">"Playful Tiff."</a></p>
<p>An anonymous British artist made a <a href="http://adage.com/article/creativity-pick-of-the-day/charles-saatchi-statue-london-ready-strangle/243413/">life-size sculpture of a red, devil-horned Charles Saatchi</a> whose right hand is outstretched in quintessential strangle form. Viewers of the piece, which is on display in London's <a href="http://adage.com/article/creativity-pick-of-the-day/charles-saatchi-statue-london-ready-strangle/243413/">Jealous Gallery</a>, are encouraged to pose getting strangled by the statue.</p>
<p>For legal protection, a sign has been placed near the sculpture that reads: "Please note this is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">NOT</span> Charles Saatchi. Please feel free to take of picture of yourself being strangled by <span style="text-decoration: underline;">NOT</span> &nbsp;Charles Saatchi on your mobile phone."</p>
<p>If only there were a hashtag.</p>
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<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/51fa682e69bedd023d000004-799-510/screen%20shot%202013-08-01%20at%209.52.31%20am.png" border="0" alt="Screen shot 2013 08 01 at 9.52.31 AM" width="600" /></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/be-strangled-by-this-replica-of-nigella-lawsons-ex-charles-saatchi-2013-8#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/nigella-lawsons-husband-charles-saatchi-announces-divorce-2013-7Nigella Lawson's Husband Wants A Divorce After He Was Pictured Choking The Celebrity Chefhttp://www.businessinsider.com/nigella-lawsons-husband-charles-saatchi-announces-divorce-2013-7
Sun, 07 Jul 2013 10:42:00 -0400Dina Spector
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/51d97ebf69bedde87f000014-480-/nigella-lawson-4.jpg" border="0" alt="Nigella Lawson" width="480" /></p><p>Nigella Lawson's husband, former British ad executive Charles Saatchi, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357634/Charles-Saatchi-breaks-divorce-news-Nigella-Lawson-exclusive-statement-Mail-Sunday.html" target="_blank">announced he's divorcing the celebrity chef</a> approximately one month after pictures showed him choking her outside a London restaurant, the Daily Mail reports.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Saatchi, 70, decided to leave Lawson, 53, because she "<span>refused to defend his reputation after he was pictured with his hand around</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span>her neck at their table," The Mail writes. &nbsp;</span><span><br /></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">"I feel that I have clearly been a disappointment to Nigella during the last year or so, and I am disappointed</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">that she was advised to make no public comment to explain that I abhor violence of any kind against women, and have never abused her physically in any way," <span>Saatchi&nbsp;</span>said in a statement to the Mail.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The couple have been married for 10 years.&nbsp;</span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nigella-lawsons-husband-charles-saatchi-announces-divorce-2013-7#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/was-charles-saatchi-treated-leniently-for-choking-nigella-lawson-2013-6British Lawmakers Say Ad Mogul Charles Saatchi Was Let Off Too Easily For Choking Celeb Chef Wifehttp://www.businessinsider.com/was-charles-saatchi-treated-leniently-for-choking-nigella-lawson-2013-6
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:58:00 -0400Gregory Katz, AP
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/51c308666bb3f7037100000e-800-/nigella-lawson-1.png" border="0" alt="Nigella Lawson" width="800" /></p><p>LONDON (AP) &mdash; A British lawmaker questioned Thursday whether police may have treated Nigella Lawson's husband too leniently after he admitted assaulting the celebrity chef in a restaurant.</p>
<p>Opposition Labour Party lawmaker Sandra Osborne asked in the House of Commons if there is one rule for the rich and famous, and another rule for everyone else.</p>
<p>She was referring to advertising mogul Charles Saatchi, who earlier this week was given a police "caution" after admitting assault. Saatchi, 70, contacted police after newspapers published photos of him grasping his wife's throat during an argument.</p>
<p>He will not face further charges or penalties.</p>
<p>Osborne said it sends the wrong message to allow someone to receive only a caution after admitting assault. Under British law, a caution can be given to someone who admits a minor offense. It carries no penalty, but it can be used as evidence of character flaws if a person is later prosecuted for a different crime.</p>
<p>Prosecutors' guidelines indicate cautions are appropriate for some assaults.</p>
<p>Home Office minister Jeremy Browne rejected the assertion that the rich and famous receive preferential treatment.</p>
<p>Lawson, 53, has not commented on the incident. In photos published by The Sun newspaper Thursday, she was shown not to be wearing her wedding band. Her publicist said earlier that she had left the family home with her children, but did not indicate if that was permanent.</p>
<p>Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg also became enmeshed in the furor surrounding the incident by declining to say if he would have intervened if he had witnessed the argument between Saatchi and Lawson, which took place at the pricey Scott's restaurant in central London.</p>
<p>Clegg said he couldn't be sure, because he did not have all the facts, and said it was possible that the confrontation was just "a fleeting thing."</p>
<p>That drew complaints from anti-violence campaigners who said he should have spoken out more strongly.</p>
<p>"It was a clear case of domestic violence," said Holly Dustin, director of the End Violence Against Women coalition. "There was enough in the papers and in the news we've seen and the fact that Saatchi accepted guilt by accepting a caution to show that this was an act of violence against a woman."</p>
<p>Clegg said later he condemns all forms of domestic violence.</p>
<p>Complaints about alleged lenient treatment also surfaced in the House of Lords on Thursday.</p>
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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:46:00 -0400Agence France Presse
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/51c039206bb3f7321b00003a-480-/nigella-lawson.png" border="0" alt="Nigella Lawson" width="480" /></p><p>British art collector Charles Saatchi has accepted a police caution for assault following an incident with his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, outside a London restaurant.</p>
<p>The Sunday People tabloid showed pictures of Saatchi, a wealthy 70-year-old former advertising executive, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/celebrity-chef-nigella-lawson-was-reportedly-assaulted-by-her-husband-at-a-restuarant-2013-6">with his hand around Lawson's neck as they sat at a table outside a seafood restaurant</a>.</p>
<p>The publicity-shy art collector, who owns London's Saatchi Gallery, agreed to accept a police caution on Monday, according to media reports Tuesday.</p>
<p>"A 70-year-old man voluntarily attended a central London police station and accepted a caution for assault," London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.</p>
<p>It said officers were aware of the Sunday People article "and carried out an investigation".</p>
<p>Cautions are handed to adults who admit a minor offence and can be used as evidence of bad character in court. A suspect who does not accept a caution may be arrested and charged. They are not criminal convictions.</p>
<p>Saatchi told the London Evening Standard newspaper: "We were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella's neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point.</p>
<p>"There was no grip, it was a playful tiff."</p>
<p>He said they had patched things up by the time they got home.</p>
<p>He said he had told his wife, a daughter of 1980s British finance minister Nigel Lawson, to leave their home with her two children until the "dust settled".</p>
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